SYLLABUS
L T P C
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UNIT I - INTRODUCTION 9
Introduction to Semantic Web: Limitations of current Web – Development of Semantic
Web – Emergence of the Social Web – Social Network analysis: Development of Social
Network Analysis – Key concepts and measures in network analysis – Electronic
sources for network analysis: Electronic discussion networks, Blogs and online
communities – Web-based networks – Applications of Social Network Analysis.
UNIT II - MODELLING, AGGREGATING AND
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
9
Ontology and their role in the Semantic Web: Ontology-based knowledge
Representation – Ontology languages for the Semantic Web: Resource Description
Framework – Web Ontology Language – Modelling and aggregating social network
data: State-of-the-art in network data representation – Ontological representation of
social individuals – Ontological representation of social relationships – Aggregating and
reasoning with social network data – Advanced representations.
UNIT III- EXTRACTION AND MINING COMMUNITIES IN WEB
SOCIAL NETWORKS
9
Extracting evolution of Web Community from a Series of Web Archive – Detecting
communities in social networks – Definition of community – Evaluating communities –
Methods for community detection and mining – Applications of community mining
algorithms – Tools for detecting communities social network infrastructures and
communities – Decentralized online social networks – Multi – Relational
characterization of dynamic social network communities.
UNIT IV - PREDICTING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND PRIVACY ISSUES
9
Understanding and predicting human behaviour for social communities – User data
management – Inference and Distribution – Enabling new human experiences – Reality
mining – Context – Awareness – Privacy in online social networks – Trust in online
environment – Trust models based on subjective logic – Trust network analysis – Trust
transitivity analysis – Combining trust and reputation – Trust derivation based on trust
comparisons – Attack spectrum and countermeasures.
UNIT V - VISUALIZATION AND APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS
9
Graph theory – Centrality – Clustering – Node-Edge Diagrams – Matrix representation –
Visualizing online social networks, Visualizing social networks with matrix-based
representations – Matrix and Node-Link Diagrams – Hybrid representations –
Applications – Cover networks – Community welfare –Collaboration networks – Co-
Citation networks.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Peter Mika, “Social Networks and the Semantic Web”, First Edition, Springer
2007.
2. Natarajan Meghanathan, “Graph Theoretic Approaches for Analyzing Large-
Scale Social Networks”, IGI Global, 2018
REFERENCES:
1. Borko Furht, “Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications”, 1st
Edition, Springer, 2010.
2. Guandong Xu ,Yanchun Zhang and Lin Li, “Web Mining and Social Networking
– Techniques and applications”, First Edition Springer, 2011.
3. Dion Goh and Schubert Foo, “Social information Retrieval Systems: Emerging
Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively”, IGI Global
Snippet, 2008.
4. Max Chevalier, Christine Julien and Chantal Soulé-Dupuy, “Collaborative and
Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for Improved user
Modelling”, IGI Global Snippet, 2009.
5. John G. Breslin, Alexander Passant and Stefan Decker, “The Social Semantic
Web”, Springer, 2009.
